WOMEN ON THE WAY FESTIVAL – “The Dark Season”

THE DARK SEASON, directed by Silvia Girardi, is a multidisciplinary theater work inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In a choral composition, artists from various backgrounds including theater, dance, music, writing, investigate the themes of ambition, delusion, violence, and prophecy. The production is focused on one of Shakespeare’s most psychologically complex tragedies. The Dark Season invites the audience into a ruthlessly honest conversation about the darker potential of human nature and its frailties. The story is interpreted to reveal transformation over destruction. Featuring Carole Acuna, Jessica Chisum, Silvia Girardi, Julie Potter, and Leer Relleum.

THE DARK SEASON. At Shotwell Studios, January 13th—30th

With a strong emphasis on the emotional and evocative component versus a plot oriented structure, this re-imagined Shakespearean version incorporates texts from the Zen Buddhist tradition, Walt Whitman and Dante to deepen the understanding of the story and exploration of themes. A tight musical soundscape accompanies the actors throughout most of the performance with selections of alternative rock, avant-garde string, Death Folk, Gothic and world music.Click here for reservations:sg@silviagirardiacting.info

The international ensemble of The Dark Season collaborated to develop the work through improvisational practices that cross disciplines, close readings of the play and world literature, as well as Neutral Mask techniques and contemporary dance. Communicating through several art forms, The Dark Season offers multiple points of entry into the work of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In its second run and with a new cast, The Dark Season premiered at the Fringe Festival in September 2010.

ABOUT SILVIA GIRARDI

Silvia Girardi is an Italian actress and director based in San Francisco since 2001. She received her M.F.A in acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Paolo Grassi Piccolo Teatro in Milan and trained in the European tradition of Grotowski, Barba, Lecoq. With more than 15 years of stage experience, directing, drama coaching in Italy and United States, she is currently collaborating with international artists on the production of original multi-disciplinary performances. In San Francisco Ms. Girardi has appeared at Exit Theatre, Foolsfury Theatre, The Garage, Kunst-Stoff Arts, MoAD, Ragged Winged Ensemble, SFMOMA, Shotwell Studios, TJT.

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